UPD: it has a 3-cell battery. well, still a good value for money.
----- Original Message ----- > From: Stanislav Sinyagin <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 2:01 PM > Subject: [swinog] Cheap Acer netbooks at Migros > > Migros is selling a cheap netbook for CHF 222.- > http://goo.gl/1tZ5C > Acer Aspire One AOD 255E-13DQws > 1024x600 screen, 1GB RAM, 250GB disk > 6-cell battery (!) > > It's a perfect device for remotely-controlled network tests, like > packet capture or any telnet/snmp/SIP/perlscript testing > scenarios that you like. > > Ubuntu runs immediately with full hardware support. > > CentOS 5 would not run: "atl1c" NIC driver is missing, so those > pre-configured Asterisk boxes won't run. > > Windows, of course, gets thrown away immediately :) > > Usually you get a 3-cell battery in a 300-franks notebook, but > this one is coming with a decent 6-cell one. It's enough to watch > movies for 4 hours in a row. > > > 1024x600 screen is too smal for any real work, but quite good for > Internet browsing and perfect for movies. > > RAM is easy to upgrade to 2GB, but watch out the RAM clocking. As > far as I recall, CL9 works, and others do not. The easiest way to > check is to open the box and see what's inside. > > > cheers, > stan > > > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog > _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog

